How to Purify a Bucket, a Glass and the Like

Question

A bucket, a glass, an ablution jug and the like have become impure, and impure on both sides, inside and outside. If one takes water in the jug, the bucket and so on and washes them three times — that is, one puts a little pure water into the vessel that is impure, and with this water with which the inside of the vessel was washed one also washes the outside of the vessel by hand, washes it on all sides and throws away the first water, then does the same a second and a third time — have the bucket, the jug, the…

Answer

They will become pure. Whatever does not absorb water also becomes pure by pouring water over it three times continuously.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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